Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences

The Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences has three major
missions: education, patient care, and scholarship. Each of these
activities is intended to improve the quality of life for companion
animals and their owners. Faculty and staff in the department
participate in all four years of the professional curriculum,
although most interactions with students occur in the third and
fourth years. The department offers a one-year internship program
for the newly graduated veterinarians, and three-year residency
programs in several clinical disciplines for veterinarians seeking
advanced training and board certification. Faculty and staff
contribute frequently to continuing education programs offered by
the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

Scholarly programs of the faculty are centered mainly on the
study of the spontaneously occurring diseases of the patients
presented to the Small Animal Hopsital. Investigative programs are
active in anesthesiology, animal behavior, cardiology, clinical
nutrition, dermatology, feline internal medicine, gastroenterology,
general surgery, G.I. Lab, internal medicine, neurology/
neurosurgery, oncology, and orthopedic and soft tissue surgery.

Approximately, 20,000 animals are presented to the Small Animal
Hospital for advanced diagnostic procedures and state-of-the-art
treatment methods. Faculty, staff, and fourth-year students
participate as a team in the care of these patients. Many of these
patients are referred from veterinarians throughout Texas and the
region, so that they may receive the benefits of the unique
expertise and diagnostic and therapeutic technology offered by the
Small Animal Hospital.